Re: Changing the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Scott Bailey
Subject Re: Changing the name
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Msg-id 4B606B68.5060606@comcast.net
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In response to Re: Changing the name  (Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>)
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Re: Changing the name
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Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
>> Uh, it is a bigger problem for people who regularly hear new people
>> talking about it at conferences.  It was a wake-up call for me when I
>> first started traveling.
>
> It continues to be a problem for new people to the project. They are
> reluctant to say the name until they hear someone else "in the know"
> say it because of how embarrassing it is to be corrected.
>
> We could change it to "PostSQL" and really confuse all the NoSQL people.
>
> Just kidding!  :)
>
> -selena

I think you are on to something! How about... wait for it...

YeSQL

Then folks could mispronounce it yeee-S-Q-L or yee-se-kwel and perhaps
even just yee. Sound very olde English and authoritative.

Scott

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